Definitions for complies

complies com·ply

Spelling: [kuh m-plahy]
IPA: /kəmˈplaɪ/

Complies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 397 anagrams from letters in complies (ceilmops).

Definitions for complies

verb (used without object)

  1. to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree (sometimes followed by with):
  2. Obsolete. to be courteous or conciliatory.

Origin of complies

1595-1605; Italian complire Spanish cumplir (see compliment) to fulfill, accomplish Latin complēre, equivalent to com- com- + plē-

Examples for complies

For it cannot be that anything should please that offends nature, or anything displease that complies with natural inclinations.

So when I ask for hymn-tunes, he smiles soberly and complies.

She has simply stood and watched, and once instructed to enter the boat, she complies.

Irritably, he complies, but when the stewardess moves on, he reclines the chair again, muttering balefully under his breath.

He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.

With this request she complies, and the wedding is celebrated.

Sir Launfal complies with the invitation, and they proceed to where the pavilion lies.

You must be perfectly blind not to see that he complies with every possible requisite!

His brothers also feel it, for they ask their uncle to go, and he complies.

We can, in fact, only retain him as we do the buffalo, so long as he complies with the statutes.

Word Value for complies
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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